Technical democracy as a challenge to urban studies: Introduction

City

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 539-548

  Farías, Ignacio ^a   Blok, Anders ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

politics of expertise; right to the city; sociotechnical controversies; technical democracy; urban infrastructures; urban politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988023608     PISSN: 13604813     EISSN: 14703629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1192418     Document Type: Editorial

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